Share VRS060 – Touch Stay: The evolution of the welcome book with Andy McNulty From the founder of Getaway Earth and Vacation Insider Guides, comes Touch Stay – the “Online Welcome Pack for the Digital Age”, and it was a real delight to have […]
Share VRS057 – Get Productive in 2015 with 7 Free Resources to Free up your time Mike and I sat down to reflect back on 2014, and share our plans for the new year. We agreed that information overload and overwhelm was a great part of […]
Share VRS052 – How podcasting can benefit the vacation rental industry with Cliff Ravenscraft The Podcast Answer Man I’ve been podcasting for around 2 years now and it’s been a blast. Not only has this grown my community online but it’s given me the opportunity to meet so […]
Share VRS051 – 12 Things That Shouldn’t be Seen in a Vacation Rental It’s been a while since I had a rant so I guess the time is ripe to get back to basics and list out all those things that give vacation […]
Share VRS049 – How One Sentence Ignited a Firestorm and Other Highlights from the VRMA Conference 2014 Just a few years after a ‘Save the VRMA’ campaign was launched and membership had slumped, this year’s VRMA Conference hit a record with over 1000 attendees, and it was […]
Share The 10 Habits of Remarkable And Successful Vacation Rental Owners Over the past ten years in my cottage rental business as well as through this blog and podcast, I have talked at length with hundreds of vacation rental owners, many […]
Share Instant Gratification and Other Guest Expectations – How the Vacation Rental Business is Changing A late night phone call on the Friday of a holiday weekend (Canadian Thanksgiving). An expectation that there would be ‘instant gratification’. After all, it’s possible to order a pizza, […]
Share VRS045 – Managing Multiple Vacation Rental Properties with Oregon Owner Debi Hertert Debi’s story of buying, renovating and marketing four separate (and very different) vacation rental properties is motivating and inspiring. From a career in patient care to a rewarding business in […]
Share Let’s rent out our vacation home…. As part of my day job as an agency owner, I regularly view vacation homes and continue to be surprised by the perceptions of owners as to the rental potential […]
Share It’s Time to Buy the Next Vacation Rental Home Over the past 12 years I’ve owned seven vacation homes – at one time we had five on the go – but mostly we have bought and sold as the […]
